Van Sounds

Van Sounds episodes:

• 02.08.2021

  Self-Destructing Episode

  https://thewind.org or https://linktr.ee/thewind

  
• 11.25.2020

  Introducing: The Wind

  I've started a new show, go subscribe! https://linktr.ee/thewind https://thewind.org/ - Hey all, Fil here. I have started a new podcast. It's called The Wind and I am very excited to share it with you. Head over to www.TheWind.org to subscribe (since it's a...

  
• 04.01.2020

  Bonus: Joe Exotic Interview

  Van Sounds speaks to Joe Exotic about running for President of the United States of America in 2016. It originally aired on the episode "That's Politics."

  
• 11.08.2019

  Dead Air

  Sam Greenspan tells us about the new podcast Bellwether and the process of making it. Sam left a job at 99% invisible and spent 2 years not broadcasting, before ending up back behind the microphone.

  
• 10.11.2019

  Postcard - Tongue, Scotland

  “Language Deficit is attention deficit. As we further deplete our ability to name, describe particular aspects of our places, our competence for understanding and imagining possible relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.” -Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

  
• 08.13.2019

  Lucien • Part 4

  The final episode of the Lucien series. Soundtrack available at vansounds.bandcamp.com

  
• 08.02.2019

  Lucien • Part 3

  Part 3 of a 4 part series.

  
• 07.12.2019

  Lucien • Part 2

  Part 2 of a 4 part series. Music by Kent Irwin, Em Jiang and myself.

  
• 07.01.2019

  Lucien • Part 1

  "Lucien" - Part 1 of a 4 part series. Music by Kent Irwin. Thanks to Mignon Fogarty of Grammar Girl.

  
• 06.07.2019

  Postcard - Tokyo 東京

  Postcard from Japan by Rose McMackin // Find her at https://www.disasterologie.com

  
• 05.01.2019

  Current Joys

  Nick Rattigan of the band Current Joys checks in every week while touring North America.

  
• 04.02.2019

  Postcard - Avalanche Cannon

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• 03.15.2019

  A shout across the valley

  How did a singing style from the lungs of swiss herders make it into the mouths of the cowboys? An examination of voice breaking, wildness and parallel histories in North America. Yodel playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYDyXn6qso&list=PLkNGcT8rdUVlvvYM-VvcHJYwpP58vnAdz Music, Book links and photos at www.vansounds.org

  
• 12.23.2018

  Bonus: Willie Watson Interview

  A 2013 conversation with Willie Watson from the new Coen Brothers Movie. Watson plays a singing gunslinger in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."

  
• 11.24.2018

  It Will Never Be Quiet Again

  A constant ringing in your ears.

  
• 10.23.2018

  1 775 581 4395 - Nevada Day Special

  Thanks for calling Van Sounds' Nevada News Network. We're taking the week off on account of the wind.

  
• 10.16.2018

  Postcard - Florence, Italy

  Subscribe Buy Merch Contributor Lauren Baker reads a postcard from Florence. Recorded on a hike in the Sierra Nevada. ...

  
• 09.23.2018

  A Hobo, A Tramp, A Bum

  You are what you do but sometimes that line moves, then blurs. Producer Em Jiang and I wander around the tracks at different speeds.

  
• 08.15.2018

  A Catalogue of Nights

  "In January I left my home for 6 months of wandering and, of course, one of the main things I explored were the infinite shades of night in each new place. What I noticed more than ever is that every...

  
• 07.17.2018

  Fool's Gold!

  Extra Extra!! From the banks of the Satoshi River to the banks of the Reese River, a mining-town newspaper that propped up a honest-to-goodness LIARS CLUB, no lie, and a story from the city who built itself on such falsehoods....

  
• 06.19.2018

  KATHMANDU 666

  There is a lot of death metal bands in Kathmandu, Nepal. Let's figure out why. Oh, and my mom will be there. She'll help interview the metal bands.

  
• 04.25.2018

  The Silent Piece

  When composer John Cage spoke of "The Silent Piece," he wasn't talking about 4:33. So, what was he talking about?

  
• 03.13.2018

  Postcard #11 - Bus 104

  A guest postcard from Julian Guy, navigating the bus system of Montevideo Uruguay.

  
• 02.08.2018

  Mt. Julius Caesar

  Beginning with an ear hike through John Muir National Forest, this episode dives into the process of naming places. Denali, Jefferson Davis Peak(s), and literary reflection on the need to name big, permanent things after small, impermanent humans.

  
• 12.27.2017

  Postcard #10 - Bus 41

  New Baseball Shirt: https://vansounds.bandcamp.com/merch/baseball-shirt This episode was scored by Julian Jacobs Lightning over Rural Argentina, rest-stop buffet, sleep paralysis

  
• 12.07.2017

  Picon

  The Picon Punch in the Great Basin. Exploring shades of brown at the JT in Gardnerville, NV The Martin Hotel in Winnemucca, NV, Santa Fe Hotel and Louies' Basque Corner in Reno, NV, The Overland in Fallon, NV, The Star...

  
• 11.07.2017

  Snake in the Grass

  Slithering through the skyscrapers on São Paulo. Playing basements, garages and living rooms. Listening. ••• This Episode of Van Sounds was brought to you by Astray Goods Company -- handcrafted backpacks made to last a lifetime. Back them on Kickstarter...

  
• 09.20.2017

  Postcard #9 - Pacifica, CA

  I'm in Uruguay right now without a computer, so here's Van Sounds' first guest postcard.

  
• 08.31.2017

  Repeater

  I have 100 theme songs in my head. Dallas Taylor of podcast 20khz, and an interview with the mysterious Break Master Cylinder.

  
• 08.02.2017

  Are you there?

  Photographing from afar. Interviewing through the telephone. Asking bartenders about their lives. Hop in, let's take a ride. Travel Podcast, travelpodcast, travel, music, places, people and places, sense of place, where am i? what is this in my hand? Music: Roots connective by Yclept Insan The One...

  
• 07.04.2017

  Postcard #8 - Globe, Az

  A story about promotional records, a cactus in the snow and hacking payphones.

  
• 06.08.2017

  Rule of Thumb

  In a rare how-to guide from Van Sounds, you'll hear from well-known hitchhikers (including the founder of Hitchwiki.org), and learn how to stick your thumb up.

  
• 04.15.2017

  Postcard #7 - Cuzco

  Bell tower belting, moto taxis sqealing, teenagers making out.

  
• 03.20.2017

  Island

  An island is a piece of land surrounded by water.

  
• 03.02.2017

  Postcard #6 - Tijuana Jukebox

  Van Sounds Postcards are short audio blurbs from somewhere else.

  
• 02.07.2017

  American Music

  American Music is 13 songs from North and South America. Free download at vansounds.bandcamp.com

  
• 01.05.2017

  Being There

  vansounds.bandcamp.com/merch - Helen Fillmore talks about Standing Rock, Jason Moore talks about Nepal and Brad Bynum talks about wrapping his shirtless body in a filthy coth from a historic bar's rafters. For pictures, links and music, visit Vansounds.org

  
• 11.14.2016

  Postcard #5 - Juneau, AK

  Mendenhall Glacier, a shipwrecked stranger, fever in a bar.

  
• 11.01.2016

  That's Politics

  People with Bodies tour the northwest. We catch a baseball game with 90's G-funk rapper Squeek Nutty Bug, talk Marijuana legalization with offical spokesperson for "Protecting Nevada's Children," and have a chat with Presidential Candidate Joe Exotic.

  
• 09.13.2016

  before now

  I spoke with Tijuana-based artist Dani Shivers and Simpsonwave creator Lucien Hughes about nostalgia in art.

  
• 08.17.2016

  Postcard #4 - Poughkeepsie, NY

  #4 in the Van Sounds Postcard series. This time, a quick check in from Poughkeepsie, NY. ...

  
• 08.05.2016

  Brazil on Fire

  A meandering album review of Elza Soares' Mulher do Fim do Mundo. An interview with Guilherme Kastrup and Saundra Coutinho.

  
• 07.26.2016

  Going For It

  I left my day job to focus on Van Sounds full time. In this episode, I chat with Joe Lally (Fugazi), Luciano Valério, and Saundra Coutinho (Mercenarias) about going for it.

  
• 06.06.2016

  Postcard #3 - Austin, Nevada

  Van Sounds contributor Kent Irwin and I stopped in Austin, Nevada for a night on the way to Ely.

  
• 05.19.2016

  There, There // Hear, Hear

  I spent new years in Buenos Aires. 32 years after the Military Dictatorship fell.

  
• 04.18.2016

  Postcard #2 - Punk house, Rhode Island

  A quick check in from Van Sounds - This time from Rhode Island.

  
• 04.05.2016

  The Loneliest Rap in America

  Van Sounds contributor Kent Irwin (howlsroad.com) and I drive to Ely, NV to speak with rappers Asocka and Young Creedo.

  
• 03.15.2016

  Postcard #1 - Montevideo

  The first in a series of audio postcards from Van Sounds

  
• 03.03.2016

  Wish you were here

  (Wish I was there) ...

  
• 02.05.2016

  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode Swap

  Really stoked to announce that this week's episode is a swap with The Dirtbag Diaries. They'll be playing a condensed version of the Dice Series, and this is a Diaries episode (Crash & Burn) that seemed to fit wildly...